Improvement in corn-planters



0, VAN HOUTEN.

C0rn Planten Patented Sept. 21. 1858.

No. 2L583.

tlie propelling-wheels,

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

CHARLES VAN HOUTEN, OF SUNBURY. HIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-PLANTERS.

Speeification i'orming part of Letters Patent 1%. 21,583, dated September 21, 1858.

Be ic known that I, CHARLES VAN HOUTEN, Sunbury, in the county of Delaware and State of 0hio, have invented a new and usefui Impruvement in Adjustable (Jorn-Planters; and 1 i hereby deelare that the followiug is a full, elear, and exact deseription of the same, referenee being had to fhe accompanying drawings, forming a part of this speeification, in wheh-- Fignre 1 is a sid e elevation 0f a eorfi-planter with my improvements applied te il, the covering-share, &e., being elevated out 'of operative condition. Fig. 2 is a plan or top view of the same. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section in the line .1 na of Fig. 1.

Similar letters of referenee in each of the severar figures ridiaate eoirespening'parts The nature of myinventioneonsists, first, in the empioyment of;the hinged adjustable and laterally-sliding hopper and share frames furnishd With a spring-stop er Gateh, in combination with a long transverse pinion and the propeliing-axle, inthe peeuliar manner herein after speefied.

- It eonsists, second, in the eombination of the hinged grated apron with the subsoiling covering-shares and furrow-opeter, wherebythe furrow is opened and. the dirt t hrown t0 each side and subsoiling-performed, and the subsoil perfeetlypnlverized before falling upon th e ecru, and any desired quantity of soil aan be thrown uponthe corn.

T enable others skilled in the art to make and usemyinvention, Iwill proeeed te deseribe its eonstruetion and operation.

A represents the frame of tire machine, B B and 0 the axle. Tl1e ptepelling-Wheeishave markers or stanipers cm en theireircumference. These markers prees the soil down npon the eorn, eind also indieate where hiils have been planted.

D D are the hoppers. They are arranged 0u acijnstable boards or auxiliary frames E E of the main frame A. These hoppers are eaeh furnished Wvith a distributing-roller, F, whieh has a horizontal and vertical row of seed-eells, b b, so that corn may be pianted in hilisior drills.- When it is dsired t0 plantin -drills all of thevertieal eells, with theexeepton of one, are piugged by serew-ing out: the heads of scrws whieh form the bottoms at the cells flash with the eircumfererce of thedistributing-roller; and when t is desired t0 plant in hills the horizontal cells, with t;he exception of one, are plugged in a. similar nianner.

G G G G are ehannels formed en the bottom of the hoppers f0r eonducting the graius of corn singly into tubes b b 6 b said tubes leading down to the soil and depositing the eorn, at equal distances apart, into the furrow formed by the share H. The tubes and shares are attached to the underside of the auxiliary frames ancl rise and fall with it 'when en art j ustment is made. The share is so shapcd thal: it throws the soil te either side. Behind the shares 01 fiirrow-openers coverers I I are arranged. These eoverersarej ais0 attaehed to the auxiliary frames, being set.so as te en; deeper than the furrowopeuers, aml

being narrow enough te run into the furrow and subsoil at the bottom of the same.

T0 the rear of ;he coverers a grated reverse lyinelined apron, J, is hinged. Qn this aprou the soil falls back, and is pulverized before it; deposits ubon the eorn.

The furrow-opener is adjustable, so as to c ub shallow 01 deep .by means of the steeringwh'eel K, whieh is serewed into the tonge,

and, by being lowerecl orraised, adjusts the ton gue, and thereby adjusts the furrow-sh ares.

The eoverers are adjhstable for a similar purpose bymeans of teeth 0 c, wedges (1 d, and serew-rods L L, and the whole-hoppers, furrow-openers, and coverersean be adjust'ed together out of operative condition, as shownin Fig. 1, by means of -'the auxiliary frames, Lhich are hinged s0 as to turn and slide to long brackets f f of the main frame. Bythus hingng the auxiliary frames the width that the r0ws of eornare aparts aan be deereased or in ereased, as the hopper-tubes, &e., een be moved laterally in or ou ward.

M is a.spring-cateh onthe rear end of eaeh of the auxiliary frames. -This eatch takes into one of a. series ofi1otehes or stop-holes in the main frame when the parts are in operative position, r-rest upon theupper edge of the tim berg of themain frame when the parts are out: of operative eonditon, as shown in Figijl, and the conneetion of the distributing-cylim ders and the propelling-axle breken.

The motion te the seeddistributers;ie trans}:

mittied from the prepe lling-axie by means of Q R, and long and short pinions S '1. '1, a'rranged as shown It will be geen hat by nsng the long pin ion the connection between the parts will be bnbthat1so soon as said frames are raised out of oper'ative position the pinions T T will be thrown out of gear with the long pinion and: the distribution of the 00111 stoppd.

U is a clearer in front of the steerin-g-wheel. .lh is machine is adjustabl in -every way necessary, and is compact and. well;dapted for planting corn perfectly in eithr hills or drills.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by- Letters Patent, is

1. The employment of the hinged adjustable and laterally-sliding hopper and sharefrmes E, furnishd with a. spring stop '01 catch M, in combination with a long transverse pin ion, S, and the propelling-axle C, substantaly as and for the purposes set forth.

. 2. The combinatioxi 0{ the hinged grated apronJ with thga subsiling coveringshare I .nd furrovwopener H, substantially as and f0r the purposes set forth.

- OHAS..V. HOUTEN.

Witnesss:

G. YORKEAT LEE, B. E. YOUNG 

